Deuteronomy 15:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Beware

Thine eye

1 Peter 4:9

He cry

James 5:4

Sin unto thee

Matthew 25:41

James 4:17

1 John 3:15

General references

Luke 6:34

Bible References

Beware

Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

"Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder,

But sin took an occasion by the means of the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For verily, without the law sin was dead.

Either do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "The spirit that dwelleth in you, lusteth even contrary to envy,"

Thine eye

so that it shall grieve the man that is tender, and exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left -

Eat not thou with the envious, and desire not his meat,

The thought of the foolish is sin, and the scornful is an abomination unto men.

He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be damned. Behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Be ye harborous, one to another, and that without grudging.

He cry

Give him his hire the same day, and let not the sun go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee.

Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry;

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Sin unto thee

Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.

Whosoever hateth his brother, is a man slayer. And ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

General references

If ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive: what thank shall ye have: for the very sinners, lend to sinners, to receive as much again.